Ukrainian historical regions
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A list of the various regions of Ukraine and/or inhabited by Ukrainians and their ancestors throughout history.
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[edit] Traditional regions
The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.
- Volhynia (Volyn’)
- Galicia (Halychyna)
- Podolia (Podillya)
- Sloboda Ukraine (Slobozhanshchyna, "free land")
- Zaporizhzhia ("beyond the rapids" of the Dnieper)
- Donbass ("Donets Basin")
- Black Sea Lands
- Crimea (Krym)
In the Carpathian Mountains (see also Ruthenia, Rusyns):
- Lemko region (Lemkivshchyna)
- Boiko region (Boikivshchyna)
- Hutsul region (Hutsul’shchyna)
- Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia)
Regions historically inhabited by Ukrainians (mostly with other nations), which are partly or wholly outside modern Ukraine:
- San River region
- Chełm (Kholm) region
- Podlachia (Podlasie)
- Polesie (Polissia)
- Bukovina (Bukovyna)
- Southern Basarabia (Budjak/Southern Bessarabia)
[edit] Other historic regions and names
- Little Russia (Russian: Malorossiya or Malaya Rus'), the name applied to Ukraine under the Russian Empire and earlier. Also, for historic reasons (note: left-bank and right bank refer to the bank of the river when facing downstream):
- Right-bank Ukraine (Pravoberezhna Ukrayina or Pravoberezhzhia), west of the Dnieper river
- Left-bank Ukraine (Livoberezhna Ukrayina or Livoberezhzhia), east of the Dnieper.
- New Russia (Russian: Novorossiya), colony of the Russian Empire in the depopulated steppes, in the south-east of modern-day Ukraine (Dyke Pole, "the wild field")
[edit] Historical Ukrainian states
- Kievan Rus' (a state of Early East Slavs, c. 880–13th century);
- Galicia-Volhynia (Halych-Volyn’, 13th–14th centuries)
- Zaporozhian Host (1555–1654)
- Cossack Hetmanate (1654–1783)
- Army of Lower Zaporozhia (Old Sich, 1654–1709)
- Free Lands of the Zaporozhian Host (New Sich, 1734–1775)
- Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)
- Hetmanate of the Ukrainian State (1918)
- West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919)
- Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1920)
- Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (1920
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–1991)
- Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
[edit] References
- Paul Robert Magosci, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas, 1985. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-3428-4
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